May is Museum Month at the Toronto Eaton Centre

Join Ontario museums for a fun-filled day of interactive family activities!

• Take a sneak peak at Transformation AGO as it fashions a new future for the role of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto
• Learn to detect counterfeit bills with help from the Currency Museum of the Bank of Canada
• Discover Black history in Ontario with the Ontario Black History Society
• Try your hand at Palimpsest, the ancient custom of reusing paper, with the Koffler Gallery’s activity Make a Mark, Erase a Mark, Make a Mark

Location:
The Toronto Eaton Centre,
Trinity Way (near Sears)
220 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario

Website: www.torontoeatoncentre.com

May is Museum Month at the Toronto Eaton Centre

Join Toronto museums for a fun-filled day of interactive family activities!

• Learn the art of medieval combat with a live demonstration
• Be amazed at Zoltan the Adequate’s magic show
• Get some gardening tips from the expert gardener’s at Casa Loma
• Discover Black history in Ontario

Location:
The Toronto Eaton Centre,
Albert's Way (above the fountain, near Tristan)
220 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario

Website: www.torontoeatoncentre.com

Celebrate Ottawa's Museums

The Ontario Museum Association, along with its partners and members cordially invite you to attend the launch and proclamation of May is Museum Month 2005. Join J. (Joe) Geurts, Director and CEO, Canadian War Museum, Carrie Brooks-Joiner, President, Ontario Museum Association and Georges Bédard, Councillor, City of Ottawa with Colonel By on Thursday, May 12, 2005. Information and displays 9:30 am – 1 pm.

Special Guests:
Ivy Williams, Regional Councillor, TVOntario
Pierre Dufour, Trustee, Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation

Location:
Canadian War Museum
1 Vimy Place
Ottawa, Ontario
K1R 1C2

Website: www.warmuseum.ca

RSVP: museummonth@museumsontario.com
or call toll-free 1 866-OMA-8672 by Tuesday May 10, 2005

May is Museum Month at the Eaton Centre

Join the Royal Ontario Museum and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection for a fun-filled day of interactive family activities!

• Learn about the culture of Canada's Aboriginal peoples at the McMichael's hands-on artifact display, with sculptures, tools, games and more!
• Write your name in Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Create your own origami dinosaur
• Get up close and personal with prehistoric fossils, meteorites and more!

Location:
The Toronto Eaton Centre,
Albert's Way (above the fountain)
220 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario

Website: www.torontoeatoncentre.com

The Orillia Museum of Art & History Grand Opening

Addresses to invitees will begin at 8:00 p.m. under the distinguished patronage of The Hon. James K. Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario followed by a ribbon-cutting ceremony with federal, provincial, municipal and Ontario Museum Association representatives.

Location:
The newly renovated Sir Sam Steele Memorial Building
Orillia Museum of Art & History
30 Peter Street South
Orillia, Ontario
L3V 5A9

Tel.: 705-326-2159
Fax: 705-326-7828

Email: simsalata@orilliamuseum.org
Website: www.orilliamuseum.org

60th Anniversary of VE Day Exhibition opens May 2nd

The Ontario Museum Association and the Penetanguishene Centennial Museum & Archives, in association with the museums of Simcoe County, mark the opening of The 60th Anniversary of VE Day Exhibition and host a celebration of May is Museum Month 2005. The exhibition continues to May 15, 2005. Visit the May is Museum Month event listing for more information.

Toronto Museums Come Alive at the Eaton Centre!

Discover the wealth and diversity of Toronto's Museums. Touch a live snake, get your hands on fossils, decorate shoe-shaped cookies, see artists at work - weavers and painters - meet medieval characters and the Red Coats. Test your museum IQ, listen to the Fort York fife and drum, join in the comedy Menace of Venice by Men in Tights and enjoy foot-stomping tunes by Freshwater Trade.

Host:
Marie Lalonde, Executive Director, Ontario Museum Association

Speakers:
Councillor Kyle Rae, City of Toronto
Jennifer Mossop, Parliamentary Assistant to the Ontario Minister of Culture
William Thorsell, Director and CEO, Royal Ontario Museum
Isabel Bassett, Chair and CEO, TVOntario

RSVP: museummonth@museumsontario.com or call (416) 348-8672 by Tuesday, April 26